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• Public Service Broadcasting: Every Valley review – poignant elegy to coalmining

  06-07-2017 21:30
  
  (PIAS)
  By their own admission, as “middle-class Londoners”, Public Service Broadcasting aren’t obvious candidates to musically chronicle the rise and destruction of the Welsh coalmining industry. However, they have put a shift in: relocating to Ebbw Vale, conducting painstaking research and recording former miners’ testimonies to set to music along with select historical narratives. Richard Burton powerfully describes “the arrogant strut of the lords of the coalface
  
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• Bomb actually time capsule from club that helped launch Madonna’s career

  06-07-2017 21:17
  
  What appeared to be an unexploded second world war-era bomb was a capsule that was buried in 1985 by clubgoers and bartenders from the Danceteria clubWorkers at a construction site in Manhattan dug up what appeared to be an unexploded second world war-era bomb – but turned out to be a time capsule from a nightclub that helped launch Madonna’s career. Police found the device on Wednesday in the Flatiron section of the island. They determined quickly that it was not dangerous.Continue
  
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• This Is the Kit: Moonshine Freeze review – sweet, playful indie-folk

  06-07-2017 20:15
  
  (Rough Trade)Rough Trade’s indie-folk moment continues to eddy languorously in 2017. After signing Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker, they’ve also snapped up This Is the Kit, AKA Bristol-bred, Paris-based singer-songwriter Kate Stables, whose thoughtful, guitar-seasoned songs have gathered fans including long-time PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish and the National’s Aaron Dessner, who have produced her albums and play here. Listened to loud, these songs drift warmly away on the a
  
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• Jupiter & Okwess: Kin Sonic review – exhilarating Congolese rhythms

  06-07-2017 20:00
  
  (Glitterbeat)Here, at last, is the second international release from an exhilarating Kinshasa veteran. Jupiter Bokondji is remarkable both for the sense of danger and urgency he puts into in his music, and for the way he matches an extraordinary variety of Congolese rhythms and languages against western influences in a band dominated by percussion, bass and electric guitars. He deserves to be an African celebrity, but his sporadic output has not made that easy. It has been four years since his m
  
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• The Passion of Charlie Parker review – Madeleine Peyroux and friends sing Bird songs

  06-07-2017 19:30
  
  (Impulse/Verve)On paper, this doesn’t sound promising: a series of Charlie Parker compositions sung by today’s best-selling jazz vocalists, with lyrics based on Parker’s life story. It’s a tribute to the personnel involved that it works so well. The core band from David Bowie’s Blackstar – puckish saxophonist Donny McCaslin, guitarist Ben Monder and drummer Mark Guiliana – recreate Parker’s confrontational bebop as dark, electric jazz, with Craig T
  
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• 'My identity is not your fad': how indie got woke

  06-07-2017 19:20
  
  Indie has a voice – and it’s white, male and whiney. Fortunately, artists such as Nadine Shah, Jay Som and Vagabon are bringing queer, gender and racial politics to the partyEarlier this year, Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors was forced to backtrack on an Instagram post in which he asked if the alternative music scene had become “bad and boujee”. The problem, Longstreth suggested – to Fleet Foxes singer Robin Pecknold of all people – was that indie rock had
  
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• DeJohnette/Grenadier/Medeski/Scofield: Hudson review – a new jazz supergroup

  06-07-2017 19:15
  
  (Motema)All four members of this new contemporary jazz supergroup live in the Hudson Valley in New York, and the musical history of the area – from Native American culture to folk-rock and Woodstock – has inspired this unusual update on the 1970s liaisons of jazz, rock and world music. Guitarist John Scofield, drummer Jack DeJohnette, keyboardist John Medeski, and Brad Mehldau’s bassist Larry Grenadier hooked up at the 2014 Woodstock jazz festival, and now they’re a busil
  
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• Marnie Simpson Talks Farrah Abraham’s Single AF Diva Antics: “Maybe She’s On Her Period?”

  06-07-2017 19:11
  
  But does Marnie have the solution?
  
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• Oregon: Lantern review – poignant reveries and sophisticated fun

  06-07-2017 19:00
  
  (CamJazz)Lantern is the pioneering 47-year-old crossover ensemble Oregon’s 30th album, and features new takes on their soundscape of acoustic guitar and oboe delicacies propelled by firm basslines and dynamic percussion. The classical-jazz reeds player Paul McCandless and acoustic guitarist, pianist and composer Ralph Towner remain, and Italian double-bassist Paolino Dalla Porta now joins exciting percussionist Mark Walker, a member since 1997. The Oregon signature shines in the bright, da
  
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• Here's How Need For Speed Payback Is Like A Full-Blown Action Movie

  06-07-2017 18:55
  
  Everything you need to know about Need For Speed Payback.
  
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• Straight Outta Hollywood: how hip-hop saved the biopic

  06-07-2017 18:46
  
  The film biography has a chequered past, but a rash of dramas based on the lives of 90s rap stars such as Tupac and NWA has juiced the genreMusic biopics have a long and, frankly, embarrassing history. Sure, some are well done (Control and I’m Not There come to mind), but this type of film has never been particularly successful. Until fairly recently only one – Walk the Line, about Johnny Cash – grossed more than $100m (£77.3m) at the box office.Let’s be honest: it
  
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• Haim: the soft-rock sisters on working hard to sound effortless

  06-07-2017 18:30
  
  They have had to endure condescension from men – and learn to pee at their urinals – but the graft is paying off for the Californian trio. ‘We take it so seriously,’ they sayEste, Danielle and Alana Haim, the Californian sisters who form perhaps the most adored trio in music right now, make it easy to assume these three minds operate as one. While listening to questions, they are three symmetrical and genetically simpatico faces, attention trained patiently. While answeri
  
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• Kesha returns: ‘Rainbow is truly from the inside of my guts’

  06-07-2017 18:22
  
  Unveiling her new album at an emotional London playback, Kesha revealed how she emerged from a ‘really sad, lonely, dark place’ following her legal battle with former producer Dr Luke Since 2014, Kesha has been stuck in a long legal battle with former producer and manager Dr Luke (AKA Lukas Gottwald) after she sued him for charges including sexual assault, surreptitiously administering date-rape drugs and emotional manipulation, which he has denied.The complicated cases (dismissed in
  
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• There's A Hotel In The UK Dedicated to Netflix And Chill And It's Themed Exactly Like The Shows

  06-07-2017 18:17
  
  Get ready to Bed 'N' Binge.
  
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• Charles Ives: Three Places in New England, New England Holidays review – mercurial textures

  06-07-2017 18:15
  
  Seattle Symphony/Morlot(Seattle Symphony) What music would Charles Ives have written about today’s America? His portraits of New England from a century ago are so stunningly prescient with their bluster and awe, their undertows of dread and dysfunction. He knew how to capture the feeling of being engulfed by forces too big and messy to make neat sense of. Instead of trying to tidy and rationalise, he piled stuff up and let the clashes ring out. This album is the third in an Ives series fro
  
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• Teen Mom UK's Amber Butler Explains How She Deals With Brooklyn's Bad Behaviour - EXCLUSIVE

  06-07-2017 18:12
  
  Don't miss brand new Teen Mom UK, starting Wednesday 26th July at 8pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Sorry, Jay-Z – saying that Jews own all property in America is antisemitic

  06-07-2017 18:06
  
  The rapper’s much-praised track The Story of OJ repeats a racist trope about Jewish people. It can’t just be laughed off as a complimentA packet of celebratory dreidels to Jay-Z, who released his latest album, 4.44, this week. Aside from one piece in this paper questioning Hova’s feminism (although it seems unlikely that the man who wrote Big Pimpin’ was ever attempting to rival Gloria Steinem for feminist of the year), the reviews have been adulatory. “Genius&rdquo
  
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• Connor Franta Gets Vulnerable In New Book Note To Self

  06-07-2017 18:02
  
  What's next on his voyage for world domination?
  
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• Frances-Hoad: Stolen Rhythm review – melodic invention from distinctive composer

  06-07-2017 18:00
  
  Phoenix Piano Trio/Rambert Orchestra/Hoskins(Champs Hill)It has mostly been Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s chamber music and choral works that have marked her out as one of the most distinctive voices in the well-stocked, thirtysomething generation of British composers. The latest disc of her music from Champs Hill, the third so far, turns the spotlight on her works for orchestra. There are three orchestral pieces here. Two are concertos: the 2013 Katharsis, for cello and ensemble, a suite of six s
  
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• Listen! Liam Payne And Zedd Drop New Single ‘Get Low’

  06-07-2017 17:55
  
  And yes it's already on repeat.
  
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• Kim Kardashian's KKW Beauty Contour Kit: A VERY Honest Review

  06-07-2017 17:53
  
  Kimmy we've got a bone to pick with you...
  
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• Get To Know: Maggie Lindemann

  06-07-2017 17:49
  
  This week's featured artist is Maggie Lindemann...
  
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• Dvořák: Symphony No 9; Sibelius: Finlandia review – tasteful restraint and explosive dynamism

  06-07-2017 17:45
  
  Chineke! Orchestra/Edusei(Signum)Chineke! Orchestra doesn’t hang about. Just two years old, the black and minority-ethnic ensemble debuts at the Proms on 30 August – the youngest orchestra to make it into the programme – and has just released its first recording. The choice of repertoire is symbolic: themes in Dvořák’s symphony From the New World were inspired by African American and Sioux Indian music; Sibelius’s Finlandia became an anthem of small-nati
  
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• Antoine Beuger: Ockeghem Octets review – tender and heroically controlled

  06-07-2017 17:30
  
  Various artists
  (Another Timbre)Wandelweiser music is typically gradual, intent, whispered, sparse, but not big on nameable passions. Yet what does the Dutch composer and co-founder of the Wandelweiser collective, Antoine Beuger, believe “the art of sounds appearing and disappearing, the art of approximation” is most reminiscent of? Love. Not some cool or cerebral kind of love, either: Ockeghem Octets is part of a series of ensemble pieces (starting with duos and expanding from there
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Gets Emotional After Discovering Her Book Outsold Actual Royalty

  06-07-2017 16:59
  
  NBD.
  
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• Andrew Garfield Speaks Out About His Experience Of Sexuality

  06-07-2017 16:46
  
  But you probably won't find him on Grindr anytime soon.
  
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• Ariana Grande Pays Tribute To Youngest Manchester Attack Victim

  06-07-2017 16:37
  
  It would have been Saffie's ninth birthday.
  
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• The Sexiest Spoilers From Ex On The Beach Series 7 Episode #4

  06-07-2017 16:29
  
  Don't miss episode 4 of brand new Ex On The Beach, Tuesday 11th July at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Opera's Faustian pact: is a cinema director's vision what the genre needs?

  06-07-2017 16:28
  
  Sofia Coppola’s La Traviata was slated on its Rome premiere. But will a cinema audience have an entirely different perspective? Stuart Jeffries wonders whether an outsider’s eye is an advantage for an art form increasingly consumed outside the opera houseAt the end of Robert Lepage’s 2012 production of Götterdämmerung for New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Brünnhilde called for her horse Grane. A puppet animal with a bouncing head was brought on stage. It looke
  
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• John Smith: Headlong review – simmering tales of men with furrowed brows

  06-07-2017 16:21
  
  (Barp)John Smith broods off this album’s cover art like a bearded hipster newcomer, despite years of dedicated service to folk. A celebrated guitarist, he’s played on the Watersons’ Bright Phoebus tour, dedicated this record to his late mentor, Pentangle’s John Renbourn, and he’s about to play on Joan Baez’s new LP. Headlong, however, dwells far from that world. A simmering 10-track exercise in husky pop-Americana – think Mumford & Sons with more tro
  
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• James Elkington: Wintres Woma review – warmly whirling folk guitar

  06-07-2017 16:21
  
  (Paradise of Bachelors)It’s perverse to release an album in midsummer with a title that means “the sound of winter” in old English, but James Elkington has created a convincing, warmly whirling weather system of his own here. Elkington is an ex-noise/indie-rocker from the M25 commuter belt who has long lived in Chicago; here, he fell in love with Bert Jansch’s intricate fingerpicking figures and mastered them gamely (since then he has worked with Richard Thompson and loca
  
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• Why Single AF Should Be Your New Obsession

  06-07-2017 16:07
  
  Get ready for it to take over your life
  
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• Teen Mom UK's Mia Boardman Admits 'Being A Mum To Marliya Is Really Easy' - EXCLUSIVE

  06-07-2017 15:00
  
  Don't miss brand new Teen Mom UK, starting Wednesday 26th July at 8pm - only on MTV!
  
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• This 8 Mins Of New Spider-Man PS4 Gameplay Looks Nothing Like Spider-Man Homecoming

  06-07-2017 14:07
  
  Will this be the best superhero game ever?
  
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• Marnie Simpson Reveals She And Aaron Chalmers Had Sex Before Their Onscreen Hook-Up

  06-07-2017 13:59
  
  It didn't air for this hilarious reason.
  
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• 'We represent them': how musicians kept the UK's attention on Grenfell

  06-07-2017 13:50
  
  From the big Simon Cowell charity single to a host of grassroots benefit gigs, musicians have rallied to support the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire“We urge the authorities to tell the fucking truth, first and foremost. We urge them to do something. We urge the fucking government to be held accountable for the fuckery.” So said Stormzy – the nation’s leading grime star – on stage at Glastonbury, unzipping his trademark Adidas track top to reveal a T-shirt emblazo
  
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• Real Life (Ft. NAATIONS)

  06-07-2017 13:28 via mtv.co.uk
  
  Duke Dumont x Gorgon City - Real Life ft. NAATIONS (Official Video)
  
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• Marnie Simpson Went On A Terrible Single AF Date With This Ex On The Beach Star

  06-07-2017 13:21
  
  So bad that she bailed half way through
  
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• Quiz: Is It A Beauty Implement Or A Sex Toy?

  06-07-2017 13:13
  
  Harder than you'd think. No pun intended.
  
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• Harry Styles Speaks Actual Words In These Two New Dunkirk Trailers

  06-07-2017 13:11
  
  Yes yes we know there are other people in this film.
  
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• Charlotte Crosby Learnt A Graphic Lesson About Not Inviting Drunk Strangers To Her House

  06-07-2017 13:04
  
  That escalated quickly.
  
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• Readers recommend playlist: songs about fads and crazes

  06-07-2017 13:00
  
  Short-lived dances and fashion gimmicks run through your suggestions this week – James Brown, Roxy Music and Sonic Youth all making an appearance
  Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from your suggestions after last week’s callout. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.Beginning our list – by popular request – is I’m the Man by Joe Jackson. Among many other crazes mentioned in this
  
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• 17 Things You'll Only Know If You're A Twin

  06-07-2017 12:54
  
  ‘What’s it like to be a twin?’ Errrr, I don’t know, what’s it like NOT to be a twin?
  
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• Influential Women Who Have Spoken Out About Getting An Abortion

  06-07-2017 12:50
  
  Repeat after us: your body, your choice.
  
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• Sophie Turner Reveals The Downside Of Dating Joe Jonas

  06-07-2017 12:48
  
  It's not quite a piece of cake by the ocean.
  
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• A University Is Offering Scholarships To Overwatch Players

  06-07-2017 12:35
  
  Going to uni? Kick ass at Overwatch? You need to see this.
  
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• 5 Kissing Milestones Every Couple Should Celebrate

  06-07-2017 12:30
  
  From first smooch to full on PDA.
  
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• The World Was Once All Miracle review – Anthony Burgess's musical powers

  06-07-2017 11:09
  
  Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
  Raymond Yiu’s song cycle built on the novelist’s poems and the European premiere of Burgess’s Symphony in C showcased another side to one of Manchester’s most famous sonsManchester international festival this year marked the centenary of the birth of one of the city’s most famous writers with a concert rather than a literary event. But then, Anthony Burgess once claimed that he thought of himself primarily as a composer who had drifted i
  
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• Is Single AF's Marnie Simpson Ready To Give Up On Love?: 'I'm Sick Of It'

  06-07-2017 10:11
  
  She's not having much luck
  
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• Rob Kardashian Claims Blac Chyna Got Pregnant To 'Spite' Tyga And Kylie Jenner As His Social Media Rant Gets Even Messier

  06-07-2017 09:43
  
  Talk about awks.
  
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